black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.

Related Topics

Competitor Country Dice Doubtful Fair Loaded People Peron Play Race Start Systematically

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
IDA TARBELL

Ambition Behind Democracy Destroy Initiative Mean Motion National Our Ourselves Perhaps Standardization Standardize Surest Way
A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
IDA TARBELL

Control Disturbance Full Long never Popular Remain Start
[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
IDA TARBELL

Any Anyone Anything Care Company Competition Did Just People Person Without
To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
IDA TARBELL

Above Creative Democratic Dumb Essential Growth Ideal Impulse Vitality
When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.
IDA TARBELL

Business Competitive Competitor Crowd Disdainful Doctor Fellow Fight Lawyer Man Method Ostracism Other Privilege Receive Secure Special Summary Track Tsame Unprofessional When
a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
IDA TARBELL

After Anything Begin Chain Come Each End Endless Link Little Nobody Person Sonder Strong Those Weak
The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
IDA TARBELL

Been Business Do Experiment Long Shorter Stand Surprise Fight
I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
IDA TARBELL

Fundamental Impose Improvement Law never Ordinance Seen Top
The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
IDA TARBELL

Abuse Athlete Commerce Fit Gone Make Men Pursuit Recieve Rule Shall Toward Young
Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
IDA TARBELL

Company Country Guilty Monopolistic Now Oconcern Oil Power Practice Standard Story Write
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
IDA TARBELL

All Exist Future Imagination Key None Only Possible Thing
The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
IDA TARBELL

Glad Have Marry One Only Reason Will Woman
A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
IDA TARBELL

Being Fuller Hamper Human Immediate Life More Movement Way Wring
Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
IDA TARBELL

Admit Business Country Dealing Declare Employ End Excuse Force Fraud Hard Justify Legitimate Often People Person Privileges Secure See Sly Special Tricks Very Willing
we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
IDA TARBELL

Character Expense Living Our Raise Standard
The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
IDA TARBELL

Acumen Auch Banker Business Corner Employ Employed Expose Grocer Ground Method Persistency Secrecy Sort

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes